women's nature

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dear friends

 

following is taken from the 24th chapter titled " women's nature " from

uma samhita in shivapurana. this particular story is available in

volume 3 of the english shivapurana pages 1551 to 1554 published by

motilalbanarsidas.

 

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vyasa says: o sage sanatkumara, please narrate succinctly what was

mentioned by pancachuda that women are despicable.

 

sanatkumara says: i shall explain the nature of women as it is,

listen to it, merely hearing which results in detachment. women are

lightminded. they are at the root of all troubles. attachment

towards them shall not be pursued by wakeful persons who desire

liberation. in this respect they quote an ancient tradition, the

conversation of narada with the unchaste woman pancacuda (an

apsara). formerly while the intelligent celestial sage narada was

wandering in the worlds he saw the beautiful celestial damsel

pancacuda. naradas askes her to narrate the nature of women for the

benefit of the world.

 

pancacuda (the woman apsara) says:

 

this is the defect in women. even women of noble families, women

with husbands and women endowed with beauty do not stand within the

limits of decency.

there is none more sinning and more sinful than women.

women are at the root of all sins.

they might have husbands of good knoweldge, of ample wealth, of great

comeliness and pleasing to them. but when they get opportunities for

erring, they do not wait.

this is the evil practice of all of us women, that we resort to

sinful men casting off all shame and shyness.

women love only those persons who solicit their company, who approach

them intimately and who render them a little bit of service.

women usually do not observe the limitations of conventional

decency. if at all they stand by them with their husbands, it is

because no man makes advances to them or because they are afraid of

their husbands.

even women of noble families aspire for the life of lascivious women

who in their prime of youth adorned with lovable ornaments and

beautiful wearing garments move about frivolously.

even the women who are honoured well, loved intimately and looked

after with care become attached to hunchbacks, blind men, imbeciles

and dwarfs.

they become attached to lame and even despicable persons.

there is none in the world who cannot be approached by women with

solicitations of lust.

if women do not get men of their dalliance they begin to indulge in

abnormal sexual activity with one another. they do not stnad by

their husbands.

women become desperate when they do not get men, when they are afraid

of servants, when they are frightened of being killed or imprisoned.

because they indulge in sexual intercourse as they please they are

fickleminded, of evil deeds and emotionally incomprehensible even to

an intelligent man.

fire is not satiated with the logs of wood it consumes, the ocean is

not satiated with the rivers that flow into it. the god of death is

not satiated with the living beings he kills and women are not

satiated with the number of men they cohabit with.

there is another secret of all women that immediately on seeing a man

their vaginal passage begins to exude slimy secretions.

on seeing a man fresh and clean from his bath with his body perfumed

with sweet scents, the vaginal passage of women begins to exude like

water dripping from a leather bag.

women do not brook their husbands who may give all that they love,

who may honour and console them and who may look after them well.

women do not remain satisfied and contented so much with simple loves

and pleasures and with ornaments and money as with illicit love

purused by them with other men.

women can be kept equally balanced against all these put together

viz. god of death, yama, antaka, patala, the submarine fire, the

sharp edge of razor, poison, serpent and fire.

ever since the five elements, the world, the men and women were

created by brahma, the defect lies in women always.

 

sanatkumara says: o vyasa, thus the nature of women as mentioned by

a woman pancacuda has been narrated to you. what other cause of

detachment do you wish to hear.

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the above story also appears in mahabharata where bhishma narrates

this for the reason of detachment from women. sage narada narrating

this story as a cause of detachment is also found in other puranas.

many sages and saints narrate this story to their disciples who are

interested in liberation and detachment from women.

 

members may remember a couple of mails earlier by me where pativratas

brinda and tulasi gave curses to lord vishnu which highlight that a

pativrata is so rare and so powerful that even gods are afraid of a

pativrata.

 

with best wishes and blessings

pandit arjun